Louisiana nursing student speaks out during her six-month ICE detention

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• Her detention comes amid a broader immigration crackdown under the Trump administration, including cases involving individuals with no criminal records who are seeking legal residency. Palacios, 22, told Nola. com that she was denied release on bond and may be forced to voluntarily return to Honduras, the country she left with her parents at age six, while continuing to wait for a decision on her immigration case.‘We’re back at stage one’: Trump cuts rock Louisiana town plagued by gun violence Read more“The only thing now that I want is my freedom back,” Palacios told the outlet.
• “I don’t want to be enclosed in a space where everything is controlled.
• I have no power to do anything.
• I feel hopeless all the time.
• And nothing is moving to help me.”Palacios said she applied for asylum as a child.